This is a pre-order item. We will ship this item by March 16, 2018 unless your order includes other pre-order items that ship later. All items in your order will ship together.

PRE-ORDER DETAILS

Please note that the LOSER edition of Jericho Sirens is a hi-quality BLACK VINYL LP, in keeping with the band’s desire to BLAZE THEIR OWN TRAIL AND LAUGH IN THE FACE OF TIME-HONORED TRADITIONS. The black version is, in this case, the LIMITED LOSER EDITION, since the regular edition available at other outlets will be CLEAR vinyl. That clear version will only be available for sale here once the LIMITED EDITION BLACK LOSER VINYL runs out.

Allcustomers who pre-order the LP version of Jericho Sirens will receive the album on Loser Edition BLACK colored vinyl, while supplies last (available until you read right here that it’s no longer in stock). We’re really hammering this home because we want to make sure you’ve bought into this idea that black vinyl is the limited edition color this time and the clear version is the less special and less awesome version to own. The black vinyl is the collectible version here, for real!

Customers will be given access to stream the full album up to four (4) weeks before release date from your SubPop.com account, with your pre-order of the album on any format.

All pre-orders will also receive any and all pre-release track downloads in advance of the album release as they are made public, which will be available from your SubPop.com account as they become available.

All physical pre-order items should ship out from our warehouse in Seattle, WA between 5-8 days before release date, so long as their are no delays in manufacturing that would delay this advance shipping timeline.

International orders may not arrive by release day as extra time must be taken into consideration for distance traveled and customs department clearance.

Swami John Reis and Rick Froberg have been making
noises together since high school. In 1986 it was the post-hardcore chime of
Pitchfork. In 1991 it was the sprawling, multi-faceted arrangements of Drive
Like Jehu. In 1999 it was the lean, mean swagger of Hot Snakes. Reis and
Froberg are responsible for some of the most turbulent rock and roll of their,
or any, generation.

Hot Snakes streamlined Jehu’s complex compositions
and emerged as bona fide downstroke warlords. They made 3 studio albums of
high-velocity, slash-your-face, piss-punk: 2000’s Automatic Midnight,
2002’s Suicide Invoice and 2004’s Audit in Progress. The
band ceased activity in 2005 but reunited for a triumphant world tour in 2011,
planting the seeds for what has cum.

Now, after a 14-year hiatus from the studio, Hot
Snakes have kicked down the door back into our lives with their new album, Jericho
Sirens, due out March 16 from Sub Pop. Fresh, warm piss, bottled and sold
as lube.

“I considered stopping playing guitar on a social
media poll after I completely mastered the instrument,” Reis says. “But so
many people kept sending me letters and voicemail messages, asking me at the dry
cleaners, or the butcher shop to bring back Hot Snakes. They were missing rock
and roll music. I’ve always considered Hot Snakes to be more in the vein of the
proto-Vog movement of the early ‘70s. But to these people, this is their rock ‘n’
roll. I understand that. I totally understand people’s desire to be controlled
and humiliated by my guitar. Anyone can play the stupid guitar. What they want
is for me to use it as a branding iron.”

The new album blasts out of the speakers with the
furious “I Need a Doctor,” inspired by Froberg’s experience needing a doctor’s
note in order to miss an important work function. “Yeah, I had to be quick on
my feet,” says Rick. “Luckily a friend had a stack of stationary from
Planned Parenthood and I used that to forge a note relieving me of my
obligation to go to a really lame Christmas party at a karaoke joint.”

Throughout Jericho Sirens, Froberg
commiserates with the frustration and torrential apathy that seems to be a
fixture in our daily lives, while also reminding us that we have no fucking
clue. “Songs like ‘Death Camp Fantasy’ and ‘Jericho Sirens’ are about that,” he
says. “No matter where you look, there’re always people saying the world’s
about to end. Every movie is a disaster movie. I’m super fascinated by it. It
is hysterical, and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. It snowballs, like
feedback, or my balls on the windshield.”

Musically, the album incorporates the most extreme
fringes of the Hot Snakes sound (the vein-bulging, 78-second “Why Don’t It Sink
In?” the manic, Asian Blues on speed of “Having Another?”), while staying true
to longstanding influences such as the Wipers, Dead Moon, Michael Jackson, and
Suicide on propulsive tracks such as “Six Wave Hold-Down,” one of the first
songs written for the project during a Mummer Parade 2017 session in
Philadelphia. Other moments like the choruses of “Jericho Sirens” and
“Psychoactive” nod to Status Quo and AC/DC with Froberg admitting, “I still
flip bird and ride my BMX on top of cop cars.”

“My muse was love. It sounds like panic and chaos,”
Reis says. “Restlessness and unease. That’s a sound that I would ask for. I
want that record. The inspiration would be simple, maybe even kind of
straightforward. Very early rock ‘n’ roll DNA with lots of rules. I would find
some note or rhythm in it that captivated me and I dwelled on it and bent it.
That’s where I found dissonance. Bending and rubbing against each other
uncomfortably. Marinate and refine. A lot of the other Hot Snakes records
always had tension and release, but this one is mainly just tension.”

Jericho Sirens was recorded in short
bursts over the past year, mostly in San Diego and Philadelphia with longtime
bassist Gar Wood, Jason Kourkounis and Mario Rubalcaba, both of whom drummed on
prior Hot Snakes releases but never on the same one. For Reis, reactivating his
creative partnership with Froberg was one of the most rewarding aspects of the
process: “Our perspectives are similar. Our tastes are similar. He is my
family. And what more is there to say? My favorite part of making this record
was hearing him find his voice and direction for this record. I came hard.”

In tandem with a full back catalog reissue series and the new album, Hot
Snakes will return to the road in 2018 to incinerate the villages, and they’re
already looking ahead to more music. Says Gar Wood, “There’re already 2 more
records written and recorded. We wanted to come out with this one using the
more mainstream sounding stuff to give people a chance to catch up.”

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This is a pre-order item. We will ship this item by March 16, 2018 unless your order includes other pre-order items that ship later. All items in your order will ship together.

PRE-ORDER DETAILS

Please note that the LOSER edition of Jericho Sirens is a hi-quality BLACK VINYL LP, in keeping with the band’s desire to BLAZE THEIR OWN TRAIL AND LAUGH IN THE FACE OF TIME-HONORED TRADITIONS. The black version is, in this case, the LIMITED LOSER EDITION, since the regular edition available at other outlets will be CLEAR vinyl. That clear version will only be available for sale here once the LIMITED EDITION BLACK LOSER VINYL runs out.

Allcustomers who pre-order the LP version of Jericho Sirens will receive the album on Loser Edition BLACK colored vinyl, while supplies last (available until you read right here that it’s no longer in stock). We’re really hammering this home because we want to make sure you’ve bought into this idea that black vinyl is the limited edition color this time and the clear version is the less special and less awesome version to own. The black vinyl is the collectible version here, for real!

Customers will be given access to stream the full album up to four (4) weeks before release date from your SubPop.com account, with your pre-order of the album on any format.

All pre-orders will also receive any and all pre-release track downloads in advance of the album release as they are made public, which will be available from your SubPop.com account as they become available.

All physical pre-order items should ship out from our warehouse in Seattle, WA between 5-8 days before release date, so long as their are no delays in manufacturing that would delay this advance shipping timeline.

International orders may not arrive by release day as extra time must be taken into consideration for distance traveled and customs department clearance.

Swami John Reis and Rick Froberg have been making
noises together since high school. In 1986 it was the post-hardcore chime of
Pitchfork. In 1991 it was the sprawling, multi-faceted arrangements of Drive
Like Jehu. In 1999 it was the lean, mean swagger of Hot Snakes. Reis and
Froberg are responsible for some of the most turbulent rock and roll of their,
or any, generation.

Hot Snakes streamlined Jehu’s complex compositions
and emerged as bona fide downstroke warlords. They made 3 studio albums of
high-velocity, slash-your-face, piss-punk: 2000’s Automatic Midnight,
2002’s Suicide Invoice and 2004’s Audit in Progress. The
band ceased activity in 2005 but reunited for a triumphant world tour in 2011,
planting the seeds for what has cum.

Now, after a 14-year hiatus from the studio, Hot
Snakes have kicked down the door back into our lives with their new album, Jericho
Sirens, due out March 16 from Sub Pop. Fresh, warm piss, bottled and sold
as lube.

“I considered stopping playing guitar on a social
media poll after I completely mastered the instrument,” Reis says. “But so
many people kept sending me letters and voicemail messages, asking me at the dry
cleaners, or the butcher shop to bring back Hot Snakes. They were missing rock
and roll music. I’ve always considered Hot Snakes to be more in the vein of the
proto-Vog movement of the early ‘70s. But to these people, this is their rock ‘n’
roll. I understand that. I totally understand people’s desire to be controlled
and humiliated by my guitar. Anyone can play the stupid guitar. What they want
is for me to use it as a branding iron.”

The new album blasts out of the speakers with the
furious “I Need a Doctor,” inspired by Froberg’s experience needing a doctor’s
note in order to miss an important work function. “Yeah, I had to be quick on
my feet,” says Rick. “Luckily a friend had a stack of stationary from
Planned Parenthood and I used that to forge a note relieving me of my
obligation to go to a really lame Christmas party at a karaoke joint.”

Throughout Jericho Sirens, Froberg
commiserates with the frustration and torrential apathy that seems to be a
fixture in our daily lives, while also reminding us that we have no fucking
clue. “Songs like ‘Death Camp Fantasy’ and ‘Jericho Sirens’ are about that,” he
says. “No matter where you look, there’re always people saying the world’s
about to end. Every movie is a disaster movie. I’m super fascinated by it. It
is hysterical, and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. It snowballs, like
feedback, or my balls on the windshield.”

Musically, the album incorporates the most extreme
fringes of the Hot Snakes sound (the vein-bulging, 78-second “Why Don’t It Sink
In?” the manic, Asian Blues on speed of “Having Another?”), while staying true
to longstanding influences such as the Wipers, Dead Moon, Michael Jackson, and
Suicide on propulsive tracks such as “Six Wave Hold-Down,” one of the first
songs written for the project during a Mummer Parade 2017 session in
Philadelphia. Other moments like the choruses of “Jericho Sirens” and
“Psychoactive” nod to Status Quo and AC/DC with Froberg admitting, “I still
flip bird and ride my BMX on top of cop cars.”

“My muse was love. It sounds like panic and chaos,”
Reis says. “Restlessness and unease. That’s a sound that I would ask for. I
want that record. The inspiration would be simple, maybe even kind of
straightforward. Very early rock ‘n’ roll DNA with lots of rules. I would find
some note or rhythm in it that captivated me and I dwelled on it and bent it.
That’s where I found dissonance. Bending and rubbing against each other
uncomfortably. Marinate and refine. A lot of the other Hot Snakes records
always had tension and release, but this one is mainly just tension.”

Jericho Sirens was recorded in short
bursts over the past year, mostly in San Diego and Philadelphia with longtime
bassist Gar Wood, Jason Kourkounis and Mario Rubalcaba, both of whom drummed on
prior Hot Snakes releases but never on the same one. For Reis, reactivating his
creative partnership with Froberg was one of the most rewarding aspects of the
process: “Our perspectives are similar. Our tastes are similar. He is my
family. And what more is there to say? My favorite part of making this record
was hearing him find his voice and direction for this record. I came hard.”

In tandem with a full back catalog reissue series and the new album, Hot
Snakes will return to the road in 2018 to incinerate the villages, and they’re
already looking ahead to more music. Says Gar Wood, “There’re already 2 more
records written and recorded. We wanted to come out with this one using the
more mainstream sounding stuff to give people a chance to catch up.”